Teasy said:
I agree, i think i'm still posting on this thread cause i'm bored.
I haven't even finished SC2 and i ALWAYS finish fighting games...
Soul Calibur III: PS2 exclusive!
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I agree, i think i'm still posting on this thread cause i'm bored.
I haven't even finished SC2 and i ALWAYS finish fighting games...
Phil said:
Phil, while none of us know the exact inner workings of these companies, I think it is safe to say that a ported game that sold 1.5M copies is profitable? I have a hard time believing that selling 1.5M additional copies of a game, sans porting costs, is not profitable.
There could be a lot of reasons SC3 may not be showing up on the GCN (or may not appear until later), but I think the possibility of them not being able to make money on a 1.5M selling ported game is not one of them. You are looking at tens of millions of dollars--for a port.
Although they are shooting themselves in the foot if they delay the GCN version (GCN owners tend to snub games they get last) maybe they were not able to work out a deal to get Link in the game or marketing is projecting that a sequal would not sell as well, or all of the above and Sony paid them good money to make SC3 a "spotlight" title for 2005. There could be a lot of reasons SC3 may be a [time limited] exclusive.
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Is this a PS2 game, or are those PS3 screens?
What inside information do I need to come to the conclusion that 1.5 million copies is profitable? That amount would make even the highest budget game profitable never mind a port. Namco would have made about $52 million from the GC version alone and around $87 million from the GC and XBox games combined, maybe more. I mean what do you think a port like SC2 costs for god sake?..
aye teasy , even if it costs 2 or 3 million to port that is just nice numbers .
Consider the art work is done for the ps2 version already , most of the code is done , the moves are done , the story is done , most of the major parts are done.
Heck unless soul caliber 3 is a completely new engine the port of part 3 will cost even less
Consider the art work is done for the ps2 version already , most of the code is done , the moves are done , the story is done , most of the major parts are done.
Heck unless soul caliber 3 is a completely new engine the port of part 3 will cost even less
Square has made Final Fantasy Online, how this can be overlooked is beyond me.
It wouldn't cost Namco too much to port the game over or even rewrite it for the platforms. Look at it in the sense that most of the foundation is already laid down and the rest is just converting the game to another format. Even if it costs $10 million for each console the profits would be more than enough to offset the price of porting it.
It wouldn't cost Namco too much to port the game over or even rewrite it for the platforms. Look at it in the sense that most of the foundation is already laid down and the rest is just converting the game to another format. Even if it costs $10 million for each console the profits would be more than enough to offset the price of porting it.
It appears that Sony is really trying to extend the life of the PS2, no matter what the cost. As mentioned by Teasy, the payoff must have been gargantuan. Especially if it fails to reach its predecessor's numbers, which is a distinct possibility. Although Nintendo incidentally tried unsuccessfully to get SCII from Namco exclusively well before its multi-console launch.